All Essays

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  Fear And Trembling And Doom

  Heteronymity in the work of Kierkegaard and MF Doom

  Eric ThurmJul 13, 2014
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  “I Come From Erfurt”: Art and Darkness in a German Dollhouse

  Tom Christie on Erfurt and its rich, complicated history.

  Tom ChristieJul 13, 2014
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  On the Gaza Border

  102 dead, 600 injured

  Ben EhrenreichJul 11, 2014

  • Around the World

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  Hitler, Continued: Afterword from the Updated Edition of “Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil”

  Thinking about Hitler’s suicide now, in the light of 9/11 and the subsequent exaltations of suicide bombing on messianic, theological grounds, does in fact offer a radical new way of characterizing his acts.

  Ron RosenbaumJul 10, 2014
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  Let Me Whisper in Your Ear

  On the mysterious Lewis

  Charles TaylorJul 6, 2014
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  The Difficult Bequest: A History of the Smithsonian

  Sasha ArchibaldJul 1, 2014
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  Malamudville

  Bernard Malamud's anomaly: 'The Natural'

  Max RossJun 30, 2014

  • Sports

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  The People’s Scholar: Eric Hobsbawm in Fractured Time

  A tribute to Eric Hobsbawm and the personal and political essays in Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century.

  Dennis DworkinJun 30, 2014
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  The Painful Consequences of Liking Fake Subway Maps

  Ben Pack discusses how we simplify the geography of cities, and how a real subway map is also a kind of fantasy.

  Ben PackJun 30, 2014
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  Blood Soup: The End of "True Blood"

  On the final season of HBO's True Blood

  Molly McArdleJun 30, 2014

  • Dear Television

  • Television

• American Loneliness

  MTV's 'Catfish' and the state of modern love

  Emma HealeyJun 29, 2014

  • Television

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  Fooled by Climate Change

  Climate change science vs. climate change debate

  Raphael CalelJun 28, 2014

  • Science & Technology

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  The Poems (We Think) We Know: Emily Dickinson

  “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” Writer Alexandra Socarides teaches us how to play Mad-Libs with Emily Dickinson poems.

  Alexandra SocaridesJun 25, 2014

• Faking Galileo

  From the LARB Quarterly Journal: Spring 2014.

  Massimo MazzottiJun 25, 2014

  • Science & Technology

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  Connecting Their Visions: Tracing the Lines between Martín Ramírez and Robert Walser

  New from "Around the World"

  Caille MillnerJun 22, 2014
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  Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry: Louise Glück and Anne Shaw

  Lisa Russ Spaar explores the second books of two well-loved but often misunderstood poets.

  Lisa Russ SpaarJun 21, 2014